have access to medical registers or appointments regardless of
time and place.
This paper presents a comprehensive review of the state of the
art on m-Health services and applications. It surveys the most significant
research work and presents a deep analysis of the top and
novel m-Health services and applications available in mobile markets
and healthcare industry.
The main contributions of this paper are the following:
An extensive review of the state of the art on m-Health;
A study of the developments/break-through on m-Health;
An analysis of the top mobile health applications in mobile
markets;
A discussion about current and open issues on m-Health services
and technologies.
The reminder of this paper is organized as follows. Section 2
elaborates on the current state of the art on e-Health systems
and how health institutions and agents are embracing the information
and communication technologies. Section 3 focuses on
m-Health awareness and the use of m-Health services and applications.
A discussion about current and open issues on m-Health
technologies is presented in Section 4. Finally, the paper is concluded
on Section 5.